Paper vest



(Non/Inder.) J W. S'TEPHENSON.

PAPER VEST.

No. 439,765. Y Patented Nov. 4, 1890.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

WILLIAM STEPHENSON, OF PORT HURON, MICHIGAN.

PAPER VEST.'

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 439,765, dated November 4,1890.

Application filed November l5, 1889. Serial 110,330,432. (No model.)

hereinafter be described, andV particularlyr pointed out in the claim.

Referring to the drawings, Figure l is a vest constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a detail in section of a modified construction. Fig. 3 is an inner View of the vest, the fronts thrown open.

Like numerals of reference indicate like parts in all the figures of the drawings.

In practicing my invention I construct the vest entirely of paper, but, if desired, may supplement the same with one or more layers of muslin or other textile fabric, the layers being assembled in any desired manner.

In Fig. 1 I have shown a vest constructed entirely of paper, and the same consists of the two opposite front pieces l and the back pieces 2, the two being suitably stitched together or otherwise connected by a seam', the said front pieces being minutely perforated, as at 4. The paper which I prefer to use is that having a long fiber, as I have found the same more durable and tenacious.

I am aware thatirnperforate and perforated paper has heretofore been used for vests, and that its efficiency as a preventive for the escape of the animal heat from the body has long ago been discovered and appreciated, as evidenced by numerous patents covering the same. The front pieces l are provided with opposite elastic tapes 5, 6, and 7, the ends of which are connected by ordinary buckles 8,

whereby the vest may be adjusted to the body of the wearer. The opposite ends of the upper and lower tapes 5 and 7 are sewed or otherwise secured, as at 9, to their respective sides, and over the same there is secured a re-enforcing strip 10 to prevent the tearing out at those points. The intermediate tape 6, I form continuous, in that it extends entirely around the body of the wearer, being stitched, as at 9, and'for the major portion of its length is covered by a re-enforcing strip 10 extending around the inside of the Vest. The re-enforcing strips l0 are, it will be understood, securely sewed or otherwise secured both to the vest material and the tapes, and thus form an efficient connection, so that the straps may be maintained under tension and not pull or tear out at their points of connection with the vest.

In Fig. 2 I have shown my invention as constructed of a material formed of paper and muslin, 12 representing the paper and 13 the muslin.

Having described my invention, what I claim is- A paper vest the opposite front sections of which are provided with short re-enforcing strips, and intermediate the strips with a single reenforcing strip extending entirely around the back of the vest, short connecting-straps having their outer ends secured to the vest, and upper and lower strips, and a central long connecting-strap secured for the major portion of its length to the long central strip, one end of each of the straps being provided with a buckle, substantially as spec-ified.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

WM. STEPHENSON.

W'itnesses:

D. J. STEPHnNsoN, LEM. A. SHORTRIDGE. 

